Man of adrenaline who mastered earth, sea, and sky
He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story — he did not dazzle the imagination with visions of lost or alien worlds, like his brother Ridley.
Tony was as populist as they come, a man of action films, pure and simple. From Tom Cruise as a daring fly boy in 1986’s Top Gun to Denzel Washington mutinying against an unstable captain in 1995’s Crimson Tide or trying to slow a runaway train in 2010’s Unstoppable, Scott mastered sky, sea, and earth in the name of film adrenaline.
